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Mia and the Bad Boy (Backstage Pass
#2)
Release Date: 05/19/15
Entangled Crush
Summary from Goodreads:
This good girl’s about to meet her match…
Ryder Brooks is living the dream—he’s famous, loved by millions of girls, and miserable. All he really wants is to write his own music, not Seconds to Juliet’s sugary sweet pop. In order to do that, though, the “bad boy” of the band will have to play by the rules. And that includes behaving with his new—and super cute—über-good-girl tutor.
Mia Reyes is in fangirl heaven. Tutoring her favorite member of her favorite band? It’s a dream come true…until it turns into a complete nightmare. Ryder is nothing like she thought. He’s crude, arrogant, and pretty much a total jerk. And the worst part? She’s roped into pretending to be his girlfriend so that no one finds out he’s being tutored. Fake kisses, plenty of PDA, and even sharing his hotel room…
But sometimes even the baddest of bad boys needs a little redemption.
Ryder Brooks is living the dream—he’s famous, loved by millions of girls, and miserable. All he really wants is to write his own music, not Seconds to Juliet’s sugary sweet pop. In order to do that, though, the “bad boy” of the band will have to play by the rules. And that includes behaving with his new—and super cute—über-good-girl tutor.
Mia Reyes is in fangirl heaven. Tutoring her favorite member of her favorite band? It’s a dream come true…until it turns into a complete nightmare. Ryder is nothing like she thought. He’s crude, arrogant, and pretty much a total jerk. And the worst part? She’s roped into pretending to be his girlfriend so that no one finds out he’s being tutored. Fake kisses, plenty of PDA, and even sharing his hotel room…
But sometimes even the baddest of bad boys needs a little redemption.
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Brooke's Review:
I want to thank Entangled Teen for supplying me with a copy of this book to read and give an honest review. Receiving this book for free has not altered my opinion or review.
I liked the first book in this series. It was really cute. But this one? This one was really great. I mean bad boy meets good girl? What could go wrong/right there? Just about everything!
Mia is a good girl. She has spent her life pleasing her parents. Doing as they say so she can be successful in what her future holds. When her mom signs her on to be tutor to one of the most popular guys in a boy band, she thinks it's just about tutoring. But it becomes so much more. My favorite thing about Mia is how she grows in this book. Even though she's a "good girl" she still sticks up for herself. She's not afraid to tell it as it is from the beginning. But during her time as a tutor to the bad boy of Seconds to Juliet, she learns she more than just her studies and pleasing her parents. She takes chances and lets herself experience things she never thought she would.
Ryder has a reputation. One that screams bad boy and no commitment. But he holds a secret: he never graduated high school and yearns to break away from S2J so he can form a solo career by attending a prestigious music college. The only way to do this is to get tutored and earn his GED. Enter Mia, a girl Ryder is sure is more good two shoes than anything else. A girl who challenges him, both in his studies and in life. But Ryder keeps himself guarded, knowing for sure there's no way he could never give his heart over to anyone because it will just get hurt. His years in a foster home and the constant texts from the mother who abandoned him prove that.
So what happens when you put the bad boy and good girl together? Sparks fly, of course. A relationship that starts off as her tutoring him slowly grows to more. And neither Mia nor Ryder is really sure what to do with any of it. Mia constantly questions if Ryder could possibly ever want more from her than her brains and Ryder battles with hoping Mia will see him for more than just his boy band image.
Burstein has a way of drawing you in and pulling you along on this emotional journey of love and self-discovery. I am not usually a fan of third person writing, but it works well in this book. You really are able to get into the heads of both characters and feel the emotional tug of the string that tethers them.
I'm a sucker for a bad boy turned good, and Ryder really fills this role. Outside he has to maintain his image: stoic, rough, incapable of committing to anyone. But deep down, he has so much love in his heart. He's loyal and fierce. Mia, well, I'm not usually someone who loves the good girls. They often irritate me, but not Mia. I loved that she was willing to open herself up for new experiences.
Of course any book that revolves around music and how it makes people feel suckers me right in. I grew up with music, as in speakers in my crib when I was an infants and going to concerts at an early age. And not a day goes by when I don't listen to some kind of music, it's like my body craves it. Mix that with me being a child of the 80s, a time when boy bands really started to make their rise, and you've got someone who cannot resist this book.
If you're looking for a quirky, intelligent and sassy heroine and a bad boy who just can't resist his goodness, this is the book for you. I ended up enjoying this one even more than the first one. I hope you do, too!
Lisa Burstein is a tea seller by day and a writer by night. She received
her MFA in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at
Eastern Washington University and is glad to finally have it be worth more than
the paper it was printed on. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her very
patient husband, a neurotic dog and two cats.She wrote her first story when she was in second grade. It was a Thanksgiving tale from the point of view of the turkey from freezer to oven to plate. It was scandalous.
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